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South should dropped some fully-charged cell phones loaded with media and Wikipedia entries.
They've already being doing that shit for years now. The trash balloons are a response to that.
Then SK should do it some more, seems to really bother NK for... some reason.
Maybe because they're littering e-waste at a massive scale?
Well that's just not true. Anything electronic landing broken in NK would be scavenged for parts in 5 minutes. People in the countryside there don't have access to new things like those in Pyongyang.
They probably turn in the balloons to the local authority after they take what they want. Then the local police take some and send it to the main headquarters. I'm sure it's like drug shipments that start out at 10 kilos and end up at 2 kilos by the time it reaches the evidence locker.
Source?
Are you asking for a source with unbiased info about North Korea? That's almost impossible. Read some interviews with defectors and they will tell you how they bribed police or had hidden electronic devices.
The average person in NK is just like you or me, but they don't have much more than some basic food and a few possessions. Their lives basically suck solely because of the government and they live right next to one of the most developed metropolises on Earth.
Ftfy
Hilarious that you'd say that when you pulled this from the same source:
https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korean-leaflets-north-korea-2014-1
https://www.nknews.org/2023/05/ngo-says-it-sent-bottles-filled-with-rice-and-flash-drives-into-north-korea/#:~:text=A%20South%20Korean%20nongovernmental%20organization,the%20outbreak%20of%20COVID%2D19.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-366-thumb-drives-vs-north-korea-aftermetoo-grammy-nominations-a-charlie-brown-christmas-and-more-1.4423146/flash-drives-for-freedom-how-smuggled-western-media-could-take-down-kim-jong-un-1.4423241
https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/25/asia/north-korea-drones/index.html
Hmm, that doesn't seem like "massive" to me. And if NK actually gave a shit about that, they'd allow their citizens to access these things via the open internet, like you or me. But they can't. Seems like their problem.
Idk what "free and open" internet you're talking about. All I see is a one massive advertisement that requires me to sell my soul away every time I want to sign up for something.
Why isn't anyone from NK chiming in but we're able to talk about it? That's interesting. It's also interesting that you continue to use the internet if you hate it so much - you don't have to use it, you can be like an NK citizen and not be able to access it. Just stop paying your internet bill and you can experience life like that!
Add a little starvation and manual labor and you'll be set.
That's wild. I had no idea.
They’ve been dropping usb sticks over the border for like decades now.
For all those peasants with computers?
Phones mostly these days from what I understand, before that small digital video players which could also play usb stocks.
They’re poor and oppressed, not living in the Iron Age.
It's estimated over a third of North Koreans have access to a computer at home. Just no internet...